Five years ago, the United States was completing its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan when the terrorist group known as the Islamic State Khorasan Province carried out one last murderous strike.

Kennedy Jr. once claimed that the president’s testosterone levels are unusually high for a man of his age, and Kennedy is known to take a supplementary dose of the male sex hormone himself. In April, ...

Tricia Bacon is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of International Service at American University.

Today’s questions are about faith, science, and their midpoint: therapy. And once again, this is the last week of this style of Atlantic Trivia. Rabbithole, The Atlantic’s new trivia game, arrives ...

Nothing has worked. So Trump’s new strategy is to try doing nothing, and see whether that works. The president is de-emphasizing both diplomacy and military action, and instead placing his faith in ...

Yet none of them alone can explain why shopping is sucking up more of my time—and maybe yours too. “I don’t think people are actually enjoying the shopping process,” Jaehee Jung, a University of ...

That evidence—and the judgment of DOJ—has done little to stop Donald Trump from pursuing this debunked theory over and over ...

New speakers include: Senator Mark Kelly, Padma Lakshmi, Joe Kahn, Gina Raimondo, Ben McKenzie, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard ...

Chang-rae Lee’s new novel examines a young man’s attempt to be tough—and its far-reaching consequences.

The more that men can credibly signal they will be dependable ‘dads’ and not disappointing ‘duds,’ the higher the birth rate ...

The Jamaican writer Marlon James won international fame with A Brief History of Seven Killings, which was awarded the Booker ...

Normal days in Spain can suddenly turn otherworldly. On a trip to Málaga in April, for instance, during Semana Santa, my friends and I happened upon a midnight procession of about 50 men in hoods who ...